Well I am back from Disney and I have sooo much to write about. I do have some bad news, well it's not news, it's just people who should be special in my life disappointing me but I really don't want this to post to be about them (even though they tired to make my good news all about them with their bad attitude). But I will try to save that rant for another time because this will be a good blog post!
So Thanksgiving Break has come and almost gone. Last Friday Daniel and I got up early and started our long drive to Orlando! We only hit traffic once, and in that we went 3 miles and an hour. But after that it was mostly smooth sailing. We stopped in Savannah, GA for dinner. We wanted to go to this place called the Moon River brewery. It was recently featured on Ghost Adventures as haunted and we were interested in checking it out. Well we didn't see a ghost but it had really good food and Daniel enjoyed their beers. After that we got back on the road at which point Daniel hit a cat. It just darted across the road and we couldn't avoid it. I was so sad about it I balled for like a half hour. But we went on and we stopped for the night in Jacksonville, just a couple hours away from Orlando. Because we got in so late the lady gave us a discount and upgraded us to a bigger room which was truly huge! I mean I could have put on a dance recital in the empty space in that room! haha. And we looooved the king sized bed. I'm a bed hog so Daniel actually didn't have to worry about being pushed out of the bed (which has happened before lol).
In the morning we got up and went the rest of the way to Orlando! We stayed in a Hilton in Downtown Disney. Oh my goodness it was soooo nice! I took a million pictures. Our friend Dani, who is our friend Sami's sister, works in a Hilton so she helped plan all this with Daniel. I upgraded our room to a view of Disney for 10 a night and trust me it was worth it! They said you could watch the fireworks from your room but of course we were out every night so we saw no fireworks from there haha. Anyway we went and walked about Downtown Disney. Daniel had me eat a place called "Earl of Sandwich" which has these really amazing sandwiches. He had turkey dinner on a bun and you wouldn't think that much stuff on one sandwich would be good but man was it tasty! I had a meatball which was pretty delicious. Then when our room was ready we went back and got ready and went out with Dani and her boyfriend Jesus ("hey-zeus" for those who don't know how that's pronounced...but don't worry most of the time we just call him Jesus lol). We went to this piano bar called Howl at the Moon and it was sooo cool! They had dueling pianos and a band and they took requests. It was just awesome! Then we went to Dennys, which seems to be the drunks choice down there haha.
The next day we got up bright and early and started our days in the park! We went to Animal Kingdom first and there we ate at the Rain Forest Cafe. It was my first time getting to eat at one and it is such a cool experience! We got to sit but this HUGE elephant and they would come have like these loud fits every now and then. I always tell people it was a wonderful meal but there was a bit of an elephant in the room (ba-dum-CHA! Get it "elephant in the room"...like ya know awkward....oh never mind haha). And of course we visited the tigers!! I love tigers so much! And like the minute we got there two got together and cuddled each other and I got a picture of it! I was so excited!
After that we ran over to Hollywood Studios. Daniel made me go on Tower of Terror. I hate thrill rides! I mean... A LOT! And the longer I wait in the line the more freaked out I get. Well the wait wasn't that bad, but that just means I get freaked out faster. For those of you who have never been on the tower of terror, the line starts outside and you are working out way into this huge hotel building. You enter into the lobby and then they take you into a room with a bunch of people. In there the tv comes on and it does the beginning of the Twilight Zone and it tells you the back story of 5 people dissappeared some many years ago on the elevator and tonight the doors are opening again but this time it's for you. And then lets you down into the basement to get on the service elevator. By the time we are in this line I'm crying. By the time we got on the elevator I'm shaking. Then if you don't know what the ride is, the elevator drops you. They take you up and fling the elevator doors open so you can see out over the park and drop you...multiple times. It's not a that bad actually...but I'm screaming and crying and gripping everything. But the end I'm shaking and near panic attack crying ( 5 year olds handled this ride better than me lol). And I didn't think I was going to be able to calm down....and then I saw the picture. The first worlds out of my mouth after the ride to Daniel was "I hate you!" This picture. was me like mid scream (much like cartoons when the cry. Ya know mouth wide open, head thrown back, eyes squeezed shut) and Daniel with his arm around me calming looking at me like I'm crazy. It was so hysterical! I wish I had taken a picture of it!
After that I did not have to go on anymore thrill rides. So we hit like the muppets and stuff like that. We ate that night at Prime Time which is a restraunt based off 1950s tv shows. You're at mom's kitchen and will tell you to get your elbows off the table or like one woman was on her phone and the waitress told her to put that down because it was family time haha. Daniel and I got a picture sharing a coke float and we became members of the clean plate club! Until dessert, it was a huge brownie sunday and we just couldn't do it! haha. After that we went and saw the Osbourne Family Light show which was amazing. There were so many lights and they danced to music! It was awesome! And it was snowing! In 80 degree weather! Okay so it was not real snow, but I think that's even better! It was the feel of Christmas without the mess in the driveway haha. After that we rushed over to Fantasmic because he had never seen it. It's this really awesome show they do, about Mickey's imagination and then the villians try to take over and Mickey has to save the day! They have live actors and puppets and images projected on water (yes! water!) and fireworks. It really is the definition of epic!...and spectical if you are theatre person haha. After that we went on the great movie ride because our friend Sami loves that ride and I promised to ride it for her. We got on the last boat and it is a really cool ride. At the end I was going to take a picture of the building when I realized I didn't have my camera...and Daniel didn't either. Daniel lost my camera on the Great Movie Ride! Thank God for this worker who ran inside and found it for us! Bless him! I would have died a little if we would have lost that!
The next day was our Epcot day. So we got confused on the bus schdule. The way it was written we thought they charged for later bus rides, so we had taken my car the night before from downtown (which we had to hop two buses to get to) and took it to the parking garage at the hotel. We were going to go to Chef Mickeys and try to get in (because Daniel tried for months and couldn't get a reservation) but we decided not to go. So we took the car back to downtown and hopped buses which took waaaay too long and finally got to Epcot. We started with some rides and then went over to Mexico and China. I found a necklace that said Belle on it and I was really excited! We also rode test track which was my first time and it was a pretty fun ride. Oh we also went into the ball for the first time and that was a lot of fun! I had no idea that was in there!! Well when we got to China it started to rain. At first we didn't mind but then it got heavier. So I bought a panda umbrella with panda ears and Daniel bought a rice hat and the minute we had them and stepped outside it stopped...and never rained again haha. Daniel had me eat lunch in England because he loves the fish and chips, and they were pretty awesome. And for dinner we ate at the Coral Reef which is like in an aquarium and you can see sea animals while you eat. We had a huge turtle sit by us the whole dinner. They said his name was Tolstore, but they tell the kids his name is Crush, and he's 70 some years old. Very lazy and the other fish like the pick on him and try ot make him move. We actually saw one come up and looked like he kissed him. But I guess they try to make him move and sometimes he lays on them haha.
After we went on around the world and went to Japan and did the pearl thing, where you get an oyster and they open it up and you get a pearl. I got a 7 1/2 pinkish pearl and Daniel got a rare bluish silver pearl. Then we got them set. They had a pumpkin carriage I wanted to get mine put in but mine was too big haha. So I got mine set in a seashell and Daniel's is a moon. He then went and bought soki buuuut we seemed to have lost the bag with his soki and these little gifts we got for people :( We're very sad about this but in the grand scheme of Disney bags that was probably the cheapest so guess that was lucky haha.
After that we got Dani a glass. You can get them personalized at $2 a word and the glasses are a good price.It was to thank her for all she had done but we weren't sure her favorite character we took a guess and got the chesire cat and put her name on the back. Then we watched IllumiNations which was a fireworks deplay in the water in the middle of the park. It was so awesome!
When that was over we went over by boat to the boardwalk to meet Dani and Jesus at Big River Brewery. I am so glad we got her that glass because she loved it so much! It was moments like that which is why I love giving gifts. That honest love for that you gave them and the happiness it brought! I'm so glad she loved it so much, it made me so happy to see her reaction! Well after that we wandered around for a little bit and then went back to the hotel for the night.
The next day was Magic Kingdom! I looove Magic Kingdom! It's my favorite. We started by going on some rides and actually lines were really short all day except the Peter Pan ride so we haven't got to do that one yet. We'll remember to get a fast past for that next time. We went on the Haunted Mansion twice because there was new and awesome stuff in the line that we wanted to play with! haha (many pictures of that was taken as well). That night we ate in Cinderella's Castle! It is called Cinderella's Royal Table. You get a picture of you and Cinderella as part of the meal and then you get to meet some of the other princesses while you eat. I got to meet Belle!!! And the meal was soooo amazing! After that we went out and watched Cinderella's Christmas Wish where they light the castle. It was so beautiful! That night we saw the electric light parade, which was a pain in the butt to find a spot for! Only part that wasn't magical! haha. People lined up an hour early and there was a line and if you were over that line they made you move and people were saving spots for 7 people and sitting so you didn't have any room. I mean seriously you only have so much space and people can't find a spot tell them to stand up if they want that spot and let others in! and saving? No if they aren't there, TOUGH! I am. And the workers made you keep moving so we couldn't even stop to rest and I was in so much pain! I ended up crying! It was really terrible. But we did get lucky to find some room in the that we could get in and watch the parade and it was nice....def not worth that hassel though...but it could have been ruined by the workers yelling a people to keep moving and people yelling back during the parade. I don't know.
But after that Daniel and I went up and got a pretty good spot to watch the castle. They did this memories thing where they projected pictures and different things onto the castle! It was soooo cool!!! And then after that was the fireworks.
Of course the fireworks, Wishes, is always magical. But now they are very special to me because during the fireworks, when they started to play the Beauty and the Beast music Daniel proposed!!! It was so sweet, he was so nervous! And of course I said yes! And the ring is gorgeous! And the woman behind us saw it and thought it was so sweet!
When we went back to the hotel we got a celebration champange which was bought for us by a couple at the bar (who ended up being from West Virginia! How cool!) and then Daniel had got another and the bar tender bought that! What nice people!
The next day we checked out....and went home? Not exactly lol. We checked out but then we went back to downtown to lose the money we had saved lol. And ate at the House of Blues for lunch. Then went and had one last dinner with Dani! We went to this place called Crave which was delicious!! I had sushi and I enjoyed a lot! Then we started home. But we only got to somewhere in GA. We stayed in a Sleep In and boy I can tell ya we weren't in a Hilton anymore lol! It was a hot mess. Not dirty, but we went in and turned on the light and it flickered. One lamp was broken and swinging in it's stand, another didn't even work as well as an outlet. Leaky focet and the door to the bathroom was in the wall, like had to pull it out. The furniture didn't even fit in the room. And there was this random colomn in the room which turned out to be the rest of this random big shower! Daniel and I was laughing so hard! It was such a magical way to end the trip. haha!
The next day we drove the rest of the way and got home around 6:30 and went staight to Thanksgiving dinner with my Mom and Grandma.
Now I'm chilling with Daniel and his Dad who came down for the weekend. And school starts tomorrow.
So I didn't get much a break but it was in a good way. And Daniel def didn't disappoint when it came to proposing! I'm very happy about the whole thing and once school is over I get to start planning!! Pretty excited!!!
Well I think that's enough for one blog haha.
Peace and Love,
Andie Claire
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